Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irony more apparent than on the technological frontier of the Internet. There, copies of the manifesto are as abundant as flame wars. One site offers a Unabomber theme song, another invites people to attend an upcoming online birthday party for Kaczynski, and a third gives away free "Official Unabomber" screen savers that include "fashion tips" and other surprises. "It's dynamite," promises Corey Deitz, the Cleveland FM-radio jock who helped create the computer program...
...routine is the same in their big-screen debut, except that Best Brains chose a not-so-bad film, This Island Earth--Universal-International's 1955 space opera about American scientists kidnapped to a distant planet, where they are attacked by macrocephalous monsters. The MST3K prologue is a bit ragged, but once This Island Earth kicks in, so does the Brains' mother wit. It finds the absurd everywhere, from the studio logo ("Doesn't the fact that it's Universal make it International?") to the ethereal, annoying ringing sound that accompanies the aliens ("Now we know what the world sounds...
...speak against routine screening for prostate cancer. While our clinic regularly tests for many diseases, we don't systematically screen for prostate cancer. We do recognize that prostate cancer is a serious health problem and accept the PSA as an adequately sensitive test. However, we don't recommend screening because there is no evidence that detection or treatment of prostate cancer in asymptomatic men improves their lives or reduces their risk of dying from the disease. There is no way to differentiate the thousands of prostate cancers that will cause problems from the millions that won't. For the great...
Reading identically fonted messages on a computer screen does not compare to receiving individual letters, on individual stationary, with individual handwriting and doodles and cross-outs. Despite these trade-offs, and despite the recent popular trend in Ludditism, I am not knocking e-mail. As a freelance writer, I conduct most of my business via e-mail. As an information junkie, I receive news about comic book, new records, serial killers, occult religions and popular culture daily from literally hundreds of people via e-mail. And, as a letter writer, I've learned to transcribe many of most intimate thoughts...
...Macintosh, for instance, some programs add new extensions to the System Folder. While an extension by itself is a small file, each one is run by the system at startup, forcing users to wait impatiently while several rows of icons fill the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen...